John Frost

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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk · Stalingrad Of The Adriatic: The Sangro (Part 1) · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

And more troops are also arriving, including units of the 90th Panzer Grenadier Division and 26th Panzer Division. matched

And 19th Panzer Grenadier, people may remember, has been on the um has been at Sicily and before that in North Africa. matched

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The tragedy for Eighth Army is that if it had attacked as planned on the twentieth of November, it would have only met the very, very weak sixty fifth Infantry Division. matched

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And would almost certainly have swept it aside. matched

Then the road to Pescara and Avezzano, and indeed Ortona, would have been blown wide open. matched

But because they've had a week and it's been really obvious that they're there, Castleman can jiggle his forces around and reinforce it. matched

And so it's gonna be a lot, a lot. matched

uh a lot harder. matched

And so instead of three Duke divisions absolutely hammering aw against one very weak German infantry division, then now find themselves attacking four divisions of the enemy. matched

Yeah, yeah, but if you burst through the 65th Infantry, you know, the road is open straight onto Pescara, you know, no organized defence. matched

That's how you get. matched

Yes, well, next day, Sunday, the twenty eighth of November, uh, is also clear. matched

Hooray, two days in the row. matched

What's what's going on with these clear skies? matched

And of course, this allows the tactical air force to fly over in force. matched

And and an eighth army absolutely smashes it. matched

Uh I mean, you know, they're consolidating gains. matched

Um, it allows General Allfrey, who's the fifth corps commander, to try tanks on the ridge after all. matched

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